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Really just comes down to manufacturing is heavily automated, while repair is heavily labor-intensive. It often is cheaper to buy a new thing than to hire a ski
by Legend2440 3y ago
Really just comes down to manufacturing is heavily automated, while repair is heavily labor-intensive. It often is cheaper to buy a new thing than to hire a skilled technician to drive out and repair it.
- jerlam 3y agoYup, compared to many other consumer items, computers are extremely difficult to diagnose and repair compared to their replacement cost. I just had my refrigerator fixed last year - the repair cost $500, and I think there are only three or four major parts that the technician can repair/replace. I think it's similar for a washer/dryer. It can be diagnosed and fixed expensively, or not at all and must be replaced. The average computer is a mess of random hardware components and bad drivers and questionable-quality software that all interact with each other in unknown, disastrous ways. The YouTube channels Linus Tech Tips and Gamers Nexus have a bunch of videos in where they purposefully unplug or disable something on brand new computers, contact the tech support of the manufacturer, an independent shop, or Best Buy to have them try and fix it. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
- SoftTalker 3y agoBasically nothing is repariable (that is to say, nobody will bother to repair) anything below the "board" level any more. Your refrigerator could have had a bad relay or a bad capacitor, but they most likely just replaced the whole "control board" because that is just a couple of screws and a couple of cable connections. No diagnosis beyond "something is wrong on the board" and takes the tech about 5 minutes to do.